In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid exploration of metaphysical representations of reality, relativity, appearance, and illusion. Laude includes discussions of the Absolute and the Relative in Hindu
Advaita Vedānta, Kashmiri Śaivism, Sufi
wahdat al-wujūd, and Madhyamaka Buddhism; the metaphysics of salvation in Buddhist and Christian traditions; and the metaphysics of evil and the distinction between Reality and Appearance in the Jewish Kabbalah, Śaivism, Christian mysticism, and the Sufi school of Ibn al-‘Arabī. The book explores how a discerning and subtle apprehension of the relationship between Reality and Appearance may help contemporary readers and seekers respond to the acute predicaments of contemporary religious and spiritual consciousness.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Shimmering Reality: Contemplative and Mystical Concepts of Relativity
2. Christian and Buddhist Insights into a Metaphysics of Salvation
3. On the Good beyond Good and Evil
4. On Hindu
Bhed
ā
bheda and Sufi
Barzakh
5. Knowing the Unknowable: Upāya and Gods of Belief
6. Transmutation, the Sacred Word, and the Feminine
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Patrick Laude is Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of several books, including
Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon and (with Jean-Baptiste Aymard)
Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings, both published by SUNY Press.
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